Associate Director - Cybersecurity Third Party Risk Management (Remote) - AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

The Cybersecurity Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Associate Director provides strategic and execution leadership within AbbVie’s Information Security Risk Management (ISRM) organization. This critical leadership role is responsible for transforming the TPRM program to align with and support key business and technical strategies. The Associate Director will drive tactical and strategic improvements in the program, enhance current processes, and consult on strategies to transform the TPRM program. This role and function will focus on program policy, process, KRI/KPI transparency, third party contract management and reverse assessments. Key objectives include ensuring visibility into overall program health, quality assurance, and quality control aligned with the risk-based program methodology and framework to drive down risk to AbbVie.

This position can be virtual anywhere in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert, leading complex, innovative, and high-risk initiatives with significant organizational impact across the TPRM program associated with policy, process, and control management.  
• Develop and implement effective contract management to align redlines to identified risks in the information security evaluation.
• Leads third party governance, oversight and performance strategy including trending and reporting of KPIs, KRIs, KCIs leveraging transparent intelligence to address complex challenges across the enterprise, including steering committees.
• Provide vision, leadership, and industry expertise to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the TPRM Program.
• Influence change to include compliance and risk management requirements, including IT GxP, AI, and Crown Jewel standards and principles.
• Define and develop training curriculum on program techniques, talent and support systems.
• Develop and execute Quality Assurance and Quality Control program to maintain program and performance sustainability.
• Act as an advisor to senior leadership on TPRM to internal and external key stakeholders.
• Develops cross functional relationships with vendor and internal stakeholders, which includes business and procurement teams, and act as an escalation point to promote vendor accountability, remove dependencies, and build standardization.
• Drive improvements in internal customer satisfaction related to specific vendors and improvements in performance, cost, quality, risk, and performance metrics in all vendors.
• Project Communication: Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team, Division, Cross Division and Executive management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues.

• Bachelor's Degree with 9 years’ experience; Master's Degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 4 years’ experience.
• Proven experience in cybersecurity and TPRM, with a track record of leading and transforming Third Party Risk Management programs.
• Extensive knowledge of industry leading practices, emerging risks, and mitigation strategies in the context of third-party relationships.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and drive strategic initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and experience managing complex, high-risk projects with significant scope.
• Exceptional communication skills and experience advising senior leadership on risk management strategies.
• Demonstration of successful coaching/mentoring and people management.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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